Dell PowerFlex Reviews

The tool's most valuable features are its price and flexibility. It has high performance. 

The tool needs to improve its storage. It should also make migration to the cloud easier. 

I have been working with the product for eight years. 

I rate Dell PowerFlex's stability as nine out of ten. 

The solution is flexible. I rate its scalability a nine out of ten. 

I have used Cisco before Dell PowerFlex. I am also working with VMware. 

I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten. 

Our customers are enterprise businesses. Dell PowerFlex's integration depends on the product and its vendors that are being integrated. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten. 

We use the solution for its storage features.

The solution has high stability and scalability features.

The solution's support in terms of integration and firmware upgrades on the operating systems for Nutanix needs improvement. Also, they should provide continuous support for cloud integration and manage storage while migrating the data from the cloud to local devices. It will help while working with international clients.

I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.

We have an enterprise company as our customer for the solution. I rate its scalability a nine out of ten.

The solution's technical support is good.

The solution's initial setup process is simple.

The solution's price is medium.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. I advise others to use it for critical systems.

The solution has the benefits of any hyper-converged infrastructure but also has good hardware integration. It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place. Upgrading is easy, you do not need to check all of the components in your infrastructure, when you upgrade the solution handles everything.

When checking some of the components in the RCM during upgrades, it can be difficult, you have to check and upgrade the software-defined storage because it will get out of scale with the virtualization with VMware. You always have to consider this during upgrades but the process should be simplified.

I have been using the solution for approximately two years.

The solution is stable.

With this solution you can upgrade and scale up your environment very easy, it is used in enterprise organizations that have large environments.

I have found the technical support very good.

The installation is complex.

Dell came with engineers and integrators to do the deployment for us.

The price of the solution is fair, it is priced in the average range amongst competitors.

For those who want to scale their environment, manage all the environment from a single point, and have to only deal with a single vendor this solution might be for you. If you need these requirements from a business perspective as operations management, the operational cost could be lower but I would advise speaking to professional deployment teams before you do anything.

I rate Dell EMC PowerFlexRev a nine out of ten.

The solution is very simple, and not critical. We use it primarily for the Ministry of Electricity for implementing new smart meters in Egypt. It made it easier to handle the billing system.

The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability.

The security and the cybersecurity provided are very good.

The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem.

The solution needs to adjust its pricing to make it more reasonable.

I've been using the solution for one year.

The stability of the solution is very good. We haven't had any issues.

The scalability of the solution is excellent. We don't plan to increase usage right now.

The technical support is great. We haven't had any issues. The only problem, sometimes, is that you deal with vendors and not specialists. If you don't go with the highest level of support, if it's mission-critical, sometimes you can't get the spare part by the next business day because it's not in stock. It could take around one to two weeks to get the spare part. This has happened with Oracle and Cisco as well. I'm not sure if it would happen with HP, our main competitor.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We had our own team handle the implementation.

The solution is very expensive. 

We use the on-premises deployment model. We're partners with the solution.

It's a good product but the big issue is it must support different layers on hyper-visors because if a customer has something like Oracle databases that do not support VMware, there's an issue with the product. For a customer looking for VMware, VxRack is the best solution. If I need something better or different, Red Hat HyperV is an option, but there's no support. That's a big issue.

If I was just looking at it as a VMware solution, I'd give it ten out of ten, but without the hypervisor support, I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We use VxFlex for our banking applications.

The most valuable feature is high availability.

I would like to see a more user-friendly interface.

We have been using VxFlex for about a year and a half.

VxFlex is a very stable product.

The scalability is very good.

The Dell EMC technical support is excellent.

The pricing for this solution is good.

We are planning to upgrade this system in three years, but in the meantime, we are happy with VxFlex.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

At the end of the day, VxFlex is for all applications. We normally do a sizing. Then we usually look at the sizing and design it according to its outcome. It's also about applications. You can see what application requirements are.

We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VM point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications.

I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of the day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure.

The guys normally say it's all about your management. If you do a feature architecture with VMware or Hypervisor with the management, you still get a lot of attitude from that as well.

We've been using this solution for the past six years.

I think it's stable. If it's properly installed, you shouldn't see any issues or bugs.

It is scalable. Scalability depends on our customer. In South Africa, our enterprise may be 2,000 users, whereas small customers would be 400 to 500 users. What might be considered small to you, is a medium sized customer for us.

From a maintenance point of view, we normally recommend customers to get a three-year warranty for maintenance and support. Then we know that they're covered and that they will get all the latest and greatest firmware. I normally sell additional man hours to assist the customers as well. That is just to assist by doing health checks on a regular basis for them. I normally sell about eight hours. It all depends on the customer's knowledge of the products. It's between eight and sixteen hours a month, where I normally send an engineer on site to do health checks to see if everything's still fine.

I have not interacted with support myself, but our technical engineers have. I have heard from them that the technical support team is good and always helpful.

Our engineers sometimes complain that it's quite complex and incongruent. You need to make sure of a lot of things. There's a lot of pre-planning that you need to do correctly. if you don't have the correct information, then you can have performance issues on your environment.

With one that we installed, the guys found out that some of the networking was not correct. It took us two weeks just to sort that one out from a networking point of view. Normally as soon as you deliver the stuff onto the customer's site and you have all the information, it can be between two to three weeks to deploy. You will get the customer up and running and he can start using it. However, you need to make sure that you have all the information.

I have a team that provides implementation services.

Make sure that you have all the required information and that you actually do a full assessment before you design or implement a solution. You need to make sure of this so you will get the best possible performance out of the solution. If you don't have the correct information, it's going to take you a bit longer than normal to make sure it's installed correctly and performs in the ultimate areas.

I would rate this as eight out of ten.

We primarily use three or four modules for the city running on a plant.

The pricing of the solution could be lower.

The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials.

It would be helpful if they could simplify the solution for those that are new to the product, so that anyone could use it quite easily.

The solution is quite stable.

The solution is very scalable. We have about 400 people using the solution currently and we do plan to incrementally increase usage by about 10% a year.

The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment took about two months.

We used a consultant who helped us with the implementation.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Our primary use case for this solution is hyper-converged.

We have a private cloud deployment.

The most valuable feature of this solution is integration.

The virtual machine configuration for networking should be improved.

There should be more functionality available for routing.

I would like to see better integration with other services because it can be difficult to merge into the environment.

I think that stability is good for small and mid-level environments, but I don't think that it is suitable for high-end.

Scalability is great. You can increase size, which is good.

The technical support for this solution is pretty good. They have provided us support when needed.

When you are setting this solution up in a test environment then it is straightforward. However, when you have to combine it with the customer's hardware then it can be tricky sometimes.

The deployment took about one month.

We used a consultant to assist with the deployment.

We also evaluated a solution by Cisco.

This solution is good for small-end businesses, but for high-level business, you may have to evaluate other solutions.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.